Gideon ULTIMATE - 64 elite Manuale dell'operatore

ULTIMATE - 64 elite

DOCUMENTATION

by Gideon Zweijtzer

INDEX:

2. Index

3. Getting Started, Installing

5. Real SID on Board revisions 1.1, 1.2 and 1.2a

6. Real SID on Board revisions 1.3 (U64 Elite) and 1.4

7. Multi Button

7. User Interface.

8. File browser

9. F2 - configuration menu

10. F5 - Tool / Command menu

11. Clock settings / RTC

12. Setting up the MultiSID configuration on the Ultimate 64

14. Hardware

15. LED Strip

17. LED Header

18. LED options

19. Example with two separate LED’s / Example with duo LED

21. Audio/Video Connector

22. Build your own RGB Scart cable

23. SID-TAP header

24. HDMI port

25. USER PORT

27. Ethernet port

28. Network settings

29. USB ports

29. Data Streams

35. Ultimate SID player auto configuration

Getting Started

What do I need to get started?

Prerequisites

•Ultimate 64 motherboard

•Power adapter 12V DC (included)

•A case to put your Ultimate 64 in

•A C64 keyboard

•HDMI cable or standard C64 video cable

•USB Pen drive

•Kernal ROM (extract from your Commodore 64 or download online)

•Basic ROM (extract from your Commodore 64 or download online)

•Char ROM (extract from your Commodore 64 or download online)

Optional

•One or two SID chips

•Keyboard risers (for the C64C model case)

Installing

Mounting the Ultimate 64 in a Case

If you have a spare Commodore 64C case, or bought a new case (which is the C64C model as well),

you will need keyboard risers. Some of these have loose metal keyboard risers already in them,

others have them mounted with pop rivets to a metal shield. If you have the latter, it is

recommended to drill the pop rivets to get the risers loose, otherwise they will interfere with the

keyboard connector on the Ultimate 64.

A few C64C have the keyboard clipped onto the top of the case. For those you don’t need keyboard

risers.

If you buy a new case online, be aware that you will need a keyboard as well.

If you have an older case (the breadbin model), the keyboard is mounted in the top of the case, and

therefore you don’t need keyboard risers.

1. Mount the risers to your keyboard. The left can be farthest to the edge, but the right riser you

have to mount a bit to the left of the right edge, so it won’t interfere with the keyboard

connector.

2. There are some places online where you can find risers that are supposed to fit perfectly

with the Ultimate 64. Here is one model that should work:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3051450 You can 3D-print them yourself or ask

someone to do it for you. These can be screwed directly onto the bottom of the case as well.

3. Set the keyboard aside for now.

4. Now gently slide the Ultimate 64 board in your case, and fit it to the right side of the case

first. The joystick connectors should slide in easy.

5. Push it gently against the back of the case, and let the connectors on the back of the board fit

through the holes.

6. Adjust the board so you can see the mounting holes on the bottom of the case through the

Ultimate 64 board mounting holes.

7. Fasten the board with suitable screws. Don’t tighten too much.

8. Put the keyboard in the case, and connect it to the connector to the right. It will only fit one

way, as there are a key pin on the connector.

9. Attach the top of the case.

Accessories

If you have a 3D printer, or you know someone who has, you can find many nice accessories at

thingiverse. Here are a few of them:

•Ultimate64 Keyboard Mounting Brackets

•Ultimate64 & C64 Reloaded power connector cover

•Ultimate64 Multi-Button (Power Button) cap

•Ultimate64 board support clips

Commercially available kits

If you do not have a 3D printer yourself, you may also want to take a look at these kits that are

available from Corei64 by Thomas Christoph, or the Pixelwizard Retro Shop from Thomas Koch.

Both offer professional kits that make mounting of the U64 easy. Both shops have put special pages

together, just for the U64, where the items are listed:

•All Ultimate64 accessories from Corei64

•All Ultimate64 accessories from Pixelwizard

•Installation kit for 64C Corei64

•Installation kit for 64C Pixelwizard

•Installation kit for breadbin Corei64

•New C64C cases in different colors Pixelwizard

Other installation accessories, stickers and batches are available at https://www.corei64.com/shop/

or at https://shop.pixelwizard.eu/en

Connecting your Ultimate 64

Connect your Ultimate 64 to the wall and your TV/monitor. If you start with HDMI, your

TV/monitor have to be DVI capable over HDMI. You can change this to HDMI later.

Flashing ROM

Before you can use your Ultimate 64, you have to flash your Kernal and Basic ROM to the Ultimate

64. Power on and wait for picture, where it explains how to do.

Basically you stick your USB drive in the back of the Ultimate 64 and push shortly on the power

button to bring up the Menu.

The ROMs has to have the suffix .bin or .rom, as in mykernal.bin, mybasic.bin, mychar.bin.

1. Browse to your Kernal ROM image and press Enter.

2. Choose Flash as Orig. Kernal ROM.

3. Browse to your Basic ROM image and press Enter.

4. Choose Flash as Orig. Basic ROM.

5. Browse to your Character ROM image and press Enter.

6. Choose Flash as Orig. Character ROM.

7. Push F5 and choose Reboot C64.

Real SID on Board revisions 1.1, 1.2 and 1.2a

If you’re installing real SID chips, you have to set the jumpers accordingly. If you don’t have or

don’t want to install SID chips you can use the built in ‘UltiSID’.

Voltage Jumpers:

P1: SID 1 Voltage

P2: SID 2 Voltage

On/Closed: 9V (8580)

Off/Open: 12V (6581)

Filter Select Jumpers:

On/Closed: 8580

Off/Open: 6581

In Firmware revisions before V1.22, it is required to set your SID types in the Ultimate-II+ menu:

Short press on power button

U64 specific settings

Set your types at

SID in socket 1

and

SID in socket 2

Setting the SID type in the configuration enables the bus access to the chip, and also allows the

auto-configurator to choose the right chip when playing a SID tune with the provided player from

Wilfred Bos.

Real SID on Board revisions 1.3 (U64 Elite) and 1.4

The newer board revisions are jumperless. This means that both the voltage as well as the filter caps

are selected automatically, based on the inserted SID type. For this, firmware V1.22 or later is

required. Do not downgrade to earlier versions on jumperless boards!

In order to make sure that 8580 chips are never given a higher voltage than they can handle, the

socket gets disabled automatically whenever an 6581 chip (which needs 12V) is detected for the

first time. When the popup appears “SID changed”, enter the configuration menu, and enable the

socket in which the 6581 resides:

Short press on power button

SID Sockets Configuration

Enable the sockets with options:

SID in socket 1

and

SID in socket 2

Once the chip in the socket is recognized as 6581 AND the socket is enabled, the 12V is applied.

Pull Down Resistor

Note that in the original schematics of the C64, a so called “pull-down” resistor of 1 kΩ is placed

from the audio output pin to ground. This resistor is present on the 6581-based boards, but absent

on the 8580-based boards. On the jumperless U64 boards this resistor is also enabled and disabled

automatically. However, you may override this in the same configuration menu. The influence is

limited.

Multi Button

The Ultimate-64 has one button on the side of the board, which is placed on the original position of

the power button.

This button is called the MultiButton, because it handles several functions.

Function

Description

Power on

When the machine is off, press the button briefly to switch it on

Power

off

Press the button for 4 seconds to switch off the machine.

Reset

Press the button for about 1 second to reset the machine.

Press the button briefly to enter the File Selection (Ultimate) menu.

Freeze

Hold the button and briefly tap on the RESTORE key to get into the freeze function of

the selected utility

User Interface

The Ultimate-64 provides a user friendly menu driven interface, which can be accessed by pressing

the multi button (power) briefly.

There are two modes in which this user interface can operate:

1. Freeze mode

2. Overlay mode

In Freeze mode, pressing the power button briefly will interrupt the currently running program on

the C=64 and show the menu. Leaving the menu will resume the C=64 gracefully. This mode of

operation works on both PAL and HDMI outputs.

In Overlay mode, pressing the power button briefly will show the menu in an overlayed area on the

screen. The C=64 will simply continue running, but the keyboard is switched over to the Ultimate

application, as long as this overlay screen is visible. Pressing run-stop in the file browser, or

pressing the power button again briefly will make the overlay disappear.

The user interface has three main functions:

1. File browser

2. Configuration of the Ultimate 64 (F2)

3. Tool menu (F5)

File browser

The menu starts with showing the available network interfaces, and the storage devices that are

attached to the cartridge. By default, it will only show the built-in Ethernet port. When USB-sticks

are inserted, one or more items will appear in this list. This screen is the ‘root’ of the file system.

Use the cursor keys to navigate through the file system and select your file (disk image) to mount.

The highlighted line shows the current selection.

F2 - configuration menu

Use the UP/DOWN cursor keys to navigate and RIGHT to enter the desired configuration screen.

Once inside a settings screen, the behavior of the keyboard is slightly different:

Key

Function

CRSR

up/down

Move the cursor (highlighted line) up/down

CRSR

left/right

Increase or decrease a setting, cycling through the available options.

DEL

Go one level up

Return /

Space

For string fields: bring up a text entry box For enumerated fields: bring up a context

menu with the available options

Run-stop

Leave the configuration menu and saves the new values.

Note that some values will only take effect after reset or a power cycle of your C=64. However, the

main menu provides a way to restart the 1541 and the C=64 with the new settings.

F5 - Tool / Command menu

The purpose of the tool menu is to command the Ultimate application to do something that is not

related to the selected entry in the file browser menu. For instance, creating a new disk image or

directory is such an ‘action’ that can be performed using the tool menu. Some options might appear

/ disappear, depending on the state of the application, or based on whether the current file browser

directory is writable. For instance, Create Directory is available only when the file browser is in

a location were directories can be created.

More information about each of the available options can be found in the description of the

Ultimate Application itself, with all of its features.

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